SWEET

Holly Sklar came up with this sweet way to note the huge jump in CEO vs average worker pay from 1980 to 2004:

"Income gaps in the workplace have become increasingly outrageous, as seen in the growing gap between worker pay and CEO pay. We can demonstrate it with a pile of chocolate.

Give one piece of chocolate to your worker stand-in and 44 pieces to your CEO stand-in. That was the 1980 ratio of average full-time worker pay to average pay among CEOs in Business Week's survey of major corporations.

For the equivalent 2004 ratio, give one piece of chocolate to the worker and 362 to the CEO."